1983 in Mexico

Events in the year 1983 in Mexico.

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See also:	History of Mexico List of years in Mexico Timeline of Mexican history

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Miguel de la Madrid
• Interior Secretary (SEGOB): Manuel Bartlett Díaz
• Secretary of Foreign Affairs (SRE): Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor
• Communications Secretary (SCT): Rodolfo Félix Valdés
• Education Secretary (SEP): Manuel Bartlett
• Secretary of Defense (SEDENA): Juan Arévalo Gardoqui
• Secretary of Navy: Miguel Ángel Gómez Ortega
• Secretary of Labor and Social Welfare: Arsenio Farell Cubillas
• Secretary of Welfare: Guillermo Carrillo Arena
• Secretary of Public Education: Jesús Reyes Heroles
• Tourism Secretary (SECTUR): Carlos Hank González
• Secretary of the Environment (SEMARNAT): Pedro Ojeda Paullada
• Secretary of Health (SALUD): Guillermo Soberón Acevedo

Supreme Court

See also: National Supreme Court of Justice

• President of the Supreme Court: Jorge Iñárritu y Ramírez de Aguilar

Governors

• Aguascalientes: Rodolfo Landeros Gallegos (PRI)
• Baja California
  • Roberto de la Madrid (PRI), until October 31
  • Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera (PRI), starting November 1
• Baja California Sur: Alberto Andrés Alvarado Arámburo
• Campeche: Eugenio Echeverría Castellot
• Chiapas: Absalón Castellanos Domínguez
• Chihuahua: Oscar Ornelas
• Coahuila: José de las Fuentes Rodríguez
• Colima: Griselda Álvarez
• Durango: Armando del Castillo Franco
• Guanajuato: Enrique Velasco Ibarra
• Guerrero: Alejandro Cervantes Delgado
• Hidalgo: Guillermo Rossell de la Lama
• Jalisco: Flavio Romero de Velasco/Enrique Álvarez del Castillo
• State of Mexico: Alfredo del Mazo González
• Michoacán: Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas
• Morelos: Lauro Ortega Martínez
• Nayarit: Emilio Manuel González Parra
• Nuevo León: Alfonso Martínez Domínguez/Jorge Treviño
• Oaxaca: Pedro Vázquez Colmenares
• Puebla: Guillermo Jiménez Morales
• Querétaro: Rafael Camacho Guzmán
• Quintana Roo: Pedro Joaquín Coldwell
• San Luis Potosí: Carlos Jonguitud Barrios
• Sinaloa: Antonio Toledo Corro
• Sonora: Samuel Ocaña García
• Tabasco: Enrique González Pedrero
• Tamaulipas: Emilio Martínez Manautou
• Tlaxcala: Tulio Hernández Gómez
• Veracruz: Agustín Acosta Lagunes
• Yucatán: Graciliano Alpuche Pinzón
• Zacatecas: José Guadalupe Cervantes Corona
• Regent of Mexico City: Ramón Aguirre Velázquez

Events

• The Mexican company INEGI is founded.
• Mónica Rosas from Durango is crowned Señorita México by outgoing titleholder Alba Cervera.
• Benedetti's Pizza is founded by Felipe Baeza.
• Galería OMR founded by its principals Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra.
• April 3 – The 2nd festival of the popular Juguemos a Cantar series begins; it ends five weeks later on May 1.
• August 23–29: Hurricane Barry.
• December 2: The Mexico City Mexico Temple is founded.

Awards

• Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jesús Silva Herzog

Film

• List of Mexican films of 1983

Sport

• 1982–83 Mexican Primera División season
• 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship
• Football Club Chapulineros de Oaxacais founded.
• September 4: Football Club Santos Laguna is founded.

Births

• March 1
  • Elán, singer-songwriter
  • Lupita Nyong'o, Mexican-Kenyan actress
• March 9 — Maite Perroni, actress, singer, and model.
• March 11 – Renato López, television presenter, actor, musician (d. November 23, 2016).
• July 14 — Tomas Villa, featherweight boxer (d. 2018)
• November 29 – Rubén Espinosa, photojournalist (Proceso and Cuartoscuro), (d. July 31, 2015).

Deaths

• April 11 - Dolores del Río, actress (b. 1904)
• May 14 – Miguel Alemán Valdés, 46th President of Mexico (b. 1903)